Armory Arts Week 2014: SCOPE New York Recap

Walking through SCOPE Art Show this past weekend felt very much like navigating through a labyrinth, as this year’s galleries boasted exceptionally creative uses of space at Moynihan Station within the New York City Post Office. With over 68 exhibitors from 22 countries, the booths that particularly stood out were ones that not only featured strong works, but ones that provided the harmonic impression of private mini-exhibitions within the realities of a packed trade show.

Black Book Gallery’s booth was curated in two parts: a trifold wall of bold, iconic works hung side by side, ceiling to floor, creating a nearly overwhelming level of visual density, which was immediately relieved by its opposing wall of all-white works by Hari & Deepti — a collection of storybook illustrations delicately cut out of paper, illuminated by LED.

Over at Thinkspace, Know Hope and Amy Sol each featured a body of work independently from the other represented artists of the gallery. Know Hope’s collection titled “These Traintracks, They Remain, Ungrudged by the Passing Through” combines ink drawings of fragile characters with found objects, and are framed with worn-down, vintage wood. Just as intricately serene, yet done in an entirely contrasting approach, are Amy Sol’s dreamy, soft-hued paintings of nymph-creatures and her animal friends. The artist, who is possibly the only human to resemble the fantastical pixies of her own paintings, was in New York for the opening of the show.

From left to right at C.A.V.E. Gallery: Tom French. Transient. Oil on canvas. Young Chun. Under the Stars (top). Feel Good Cocktail (bottom). Oil on canvas. Peeta. Resin sculpture and mixed media painting.

From left to right at C.A.V.E. Gallery: Zach Johnsen. Ephedrine. Graphite and watercolor on paper. Tom French. Transient. Oil on canvas. Young Chun. Under the Stars (top). Feel Good Cocktail (bottom). Oil on canvas.